Work item field index

05/26/2017

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Use this index to look up a description of each field used to track work items. This reference includes all fields defined within the core system processes/process templates: Agile, Scrum, and CMMI. The fields and work item types (WITs) available to you depend on the process you chose when you created your team project.

To support additional tracking needs, you can define your own custom work item fields. For more information, see:

By using the system fields or other fields you have added to your project collection, you can enable meaningful cross-team project reports and queries. In addition, any non-system field that is referenced in the workflow or forms section of the work item type definition must have a FIELD element that defines it in the FIELDS section of the work item type definition XML file. Also, you must specify any non-system field that you might want to use to generate a query or report in the FIELDS section.

Field reference topics

The following topics describe fields that are used in common by several WITs, or those that are functionally specific to just one or a few WITs.

TFS

You can change the field name, the index, and the report attributes for any field except system fields by using the witadmin command-line tool. For more information, see Manage work item fields-witadmin.